The Leech Family Diaries, 1837-1894
Interactive resource created by Chetham’s Library and History students at Manchester Metropolitan University exploring home, family, and Manchester life through the diaries of middle-class Victorian family

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
This subscription-based collection includes ‘People’s History: Working Class Autobiographies From the British Library, London’. Many university libraries, including LJMU, hold the earlier microfilm edition of these 174 autobiographies covering the period 1792-1920. Some of these memoirs are freely available online (see Autobiographies Online).

Observing the 80s
Coming soon: voices from the 1980s drawn from Mass Observation Project, British Library Oral History Project and material from University of Sussex Library.